Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a16ced285e4cad26…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.9 KB Created: 2021-06-06 11:43:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-25
MD5: 806b43c053869f2a9abf80d3d4906443 SHA-1: 45318eb94c1b94b27b02f12f7d3aad8057a3aa6b SHA-256: a16ced285e4cad26be4be6ab6f8e6daa156404689e7f01a369c4287553b357b8
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

This PDF document contains a large number of external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The embedded content, though obfuscated, appears to be related to 'jlab earbuds', likely a lure to direct users to malicious sites. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9996

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://irlanc.ru/pbw?utm_term=how+to+power+on+jlab+earbuds PDF link annotation
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4486037/normal_6035706e089f3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4457298/normal_60472e5608816.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474450/normal_6037c3dce661a.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gorejirulikem.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/7/134738880/rafitiximaru.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4369142/normal_5fd6678c0c6d3.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sagunuriwofe.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134602517/2547242.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4462976/normal_5fcb2b59dc379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4501660/normal_60568d5546fb1.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bunonosuvon.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/9/135976801/xexoporefudulizoxivo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://xesofizagib.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/4/134491847/8551379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fosapiluni.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/6/134653401/sekagegivop_tefun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4444646/normal_60251bf41290f.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://pazumiwasosum.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/4/8/134892739/7748490.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4415740/normal_5ff13f75ace55.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/b49ebdf7-2e80-4ceb-a21b-974e14a5ad98/fapirefemebep.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/826b5ec1-6d07-47a9-814d-7a796358d1e0/70423956254.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/8f99c95b-72db-4f7e-a921-029beda4b44a/90029611337.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/0f6887a7-d711-4870-ba49-d2a44c09c67e/rigokemuwafusufet.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4157bb20-8da6-44d1-92a5-cc0d3e6e268a/rugorobajeget.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/65f9db29-09ee-4b11-beeb-63f1890c6470/69784267595.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/62ad5c5e-96a1-438b-9469-b4226258a876/financial_accounting_robert_libby.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d2e8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD2E8 5056 bytes
SHA-256: b1bbb432f482fef02048549b7c99c19ea36980200eab6a8416a95602807e4022
font_01_sfnt_off0000e42a.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE42A 12196 bytes
SHA-256: b87b95f1162ba67e2d496dc42635fd6bfc9b50bd679551b27db13905bde6d62c
font_02_sfnt_off00010d2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10D2D 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2